Well, to those of you that thought I was lost, you were right. I have been lost in work, getting a new truck, work, playing, trying to see my family, and more work. I know that it has been a while since I posted, but I want you all to know that I love you. The Real Cooks have been very busy. The girls love school, Eliza is reading awesome but I get worried that she is not understanding what she is reading, Abigail loves drawing and could sit at the counter for hours doing just that, Zola is still a spit fire but is such a cutie, Natalie is loving Young Womens and Impact Training, and I, well all I do is dream up new ideas, work, watch the kids and hang out with Nocho. Work is getting busy and I should be working a lot more then I have been.

This weekend was awesome. I went to the World Wide Leadership meeting Saturday morning and it was amazing to see President Packer train and then Elder Holland did an awesome job teaching and discussing how to teach; it brought back some good memories of teaching seminary. Then this morning I was able to go to the Stake Priesthood Meeting. It was at 7:30 am but it was so good that even I was not falling asleep. The theme for the year in our Stake is to love as Christ does. Today they focused on loving yourself so that you can love others. They said there was three keys to follow: one, find out who you are through scripture reading, patriachical blessing, prayer, etc. second, be possitive and never belittle yourself, and third, repent, follow the commandments and repent some more. After repenting, forget about the past and move on; be happy for who you are and know that you are a child of God and can do all things. Also this week end Natalie and I had some friend sleep over. They were all in town for verious things, but we had a great conversation until 3 am on Friday. We talked about semilar things that the Stake talked about today.

I just love this life. I have had such a fun time traveling through this life thus far. Pa always talks about the different stages of life we move through; well I have loved them all so far and at each cross road wish that I did not have to move on. I loved growing up with you all and cherish every minute of my childhood. I loved school, my mission, college, and being a newley wed. I still love being a newly wed and now I also love being a father. It is awesome to see my kids grow, learn, and discover.

Well, it is that time of year. I would love to get your tax returns done and if you have Rock do it, that is awesome too; whatever. I think this is the longest I have ever written, sorry if you got board reading. I will work on posting more.

Love, Boyd